Monday 3 & Tuesday 4 July

The Government is spending $40 million to improve the digital technology skills of school students, but employers say it is a lack of ‘soft skills’ such as teamwork, self-management and decision-making that makes many young New Zealanders unready for work.

Qualifications Authority staff who wanted a complete ban on polytechnics and private tertiary institutions carrying out their own English tests on foreign students have been disappointed their bosses. Our education correspondent, John Gerritson, has been following to story.

New Education Minister Nikki Kaye says the time is right for a national conversation about youth suicide after successive governments have failed to significantly reduce the number of young people killing themselves.

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